Donald Simanek's physics documents and links.

• Physics documents.
• Laboratory, manuals, reports, error analysis.
• Physics links.
• Astronomy links.

• The Museum of Unworkable Devices. Perpetual motion machines treated as puzzles and paradoxes for analysis.
• Directly downwind faster than the wind, DDWFTTW.. Can an unpowered vehicle move directly downwind faster than the wind?
• A Brief Course in Classical Mechanics.
• Physics problems to challenge insight. Elementary physics puzzles and paradoxes.
• Challenging physics problems. More problems and puzzles. Some of these are classics.
• Instructive physics lessons. Pendulums. The horse and cart problem.
• Physics lecture demonstrations, a select list.
• Physics Toys, Tricks and Teasers.
• Newton's Cradle, colliding balls, exectuive pacifier, Newton's balls.
• Glossary of physics terms, emphasizing words often misunderstood and misused.
• Let's Clean Up our Physics Language.
• The Illustrated Dictionary of Physics. What those strange words seem to mean.
• The Dangers of Analogies. Textbook analogies are usually wrong, incomplete, or misleading.
• Didaktikogenic Misconceptions in Physics. Misconceptions that result from instruction.
• Secrets your physics textbook didn't reveal. Things you've always wondered about.
• A descriptive explanation of ocean tides. and the forces that drive them.
• Tidal Misconceptions, exposing textbook errors in treating tidal forces and their effects.
• Centrifugal force and tides.
• Textbook misconceptions about centrifugal force.
• Teaching scenarios: electrostatics, lenses, images.
• Physics utility programs in BASIC. Solve common elementary problems quickly.
• Thin lens ray tracing program. A thin lens simulation which may be used as an instructional tool or for self-study.
• Angels on a Pin, by Alexander Callandra. A classic story illustrating different approaches to a physics problem.
• Scientific Urban Legends and lies textbooks tell.
• History of Science Quiz. Textbook historical sidebars often don't tell the whole story.
• Math Mayhem. Mathematical humor and diversions.
• The Scientific Method.
• What is science? What is Pseudoscience? by Donald Simanek.

Laboratory: Reports, Error Analysis

• A Laboratory Manual for Physics by Donald Simanek.
• Mechanics Laboratory Manual by Donald Simanek.
• Error Analysis (Non-Calculus) by Donald Simanek.
• Laboratory Reports by Donald Simanek.
• Physical Review Style and Notation Guide, in PDF and PS format.
• Physics 235 Laboratory. Treatment of Errors and Uncertainties. (U. Chicago)

Physics Links

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• TIPTOP, Physics World, the Internet pilot to physics.
• Science Hobbyist. Bill Beaty's Weird Science / Amateur Science Page. Lots of practical information for hands-on physicists.
• Science Misconceptions, collected By Bill Beaty.
• Bad Astronomy. by Phil Plait.
• Bad Science. Alistair B. Fraser's comments on commonly heard (but wrong) explananations of science questions.
• University of Oregon Virtual Laboratory [Java required]
• Science News Online - The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science.
• The Scientific American Magazine.
• Robert Kern Curtis' PHYSICS STUFF. A wealth of miscellaneous links and documents.
• The Net Advance of Physics Homepage. Review articles, reports, bibliographies.
• The American Physical Society.
• The American Institute of Physics.

Astronomy links.

• CLEA. Contemporary Learning Experiences in Astronomy. (Software)
• Sky & Telescope.
• McDonald Observatory. Stardate Online. Plan your stargazing for the coming week.
• The Bad Astronomy Page. Phil Plait's collection of misconceptions about astronomy.